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bug#50989: 28.0.60; nobreak-char-display in Eldoc buffers
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Lars Ingebrigtsen |
Subject: |
bug#50989: 28.0.60; nobreak-char-display in Eldoc buffers |
Date: |
Tue, 05 Oct 2021 11:13:35 +0200 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/29.0.50 (gnu/linux) |
Augusto Stoffel <arstoffel@gmail.com> writes:
>> Eldoc's display facilities are only for displaying. Sure, you may want
>> to copy text away from there, but I'd say that's rare. So it wouldn't
>> be a problem
>> in practice, unless I'm missing something
>
> I agree -- this is for display only, in which case NBSP and space are
> supposed to be indistinguishable. With the attached patch, if you copy
> the text from the Eldoc buffer to some other buffer, the NBSPs are still
> there so they will be displayed as such.
I can see arguments for both ways of doing this -- "cleaning up" the
string before display, and fixing the display (as your patch is doing).
I think the main argument here -- that eldoc buffers are for display
only, so nbsp should be displayed as normal space -- is compelling,
though, so I've applied your patch to Emacs 28.
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